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Vanity Fair’s Exclusive “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Photos

May 6, 2015 – Vanity Fair has just emailed subscribers some behind-the-scenes exclusive photos of the cast and crew of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. All photographs were taken on set by Annie Leibovitz during filming of the seventh episode of the Star Wars saga.

The photographs both inform and tease. They help to flesh out and confirm some of the characters we’ve been hearing rumors about. Yet while feeding our hunger for information, we want more: “So actress Lupita Nyong’o plays the CGI-character, Maz Kanata. Who/what is Maz? She has her own castle? And who are all these rogue denizens (photo below)? (Echoes of Jabba the Hutt’s palace….)”

An assortment of inter-galactic rogues, smugglers, and riffraff occupy the main hall of Maz Kanata’s castle.

We don’t know if he’s a Sith, but Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver) is clearly the new villain. The frozen Hoth-like planet intrigues us.

Welcome to the planet Jakku: J.J. Abrams directs Daisy Ridley (the heroine Rey), seated on her speeder. The setting is a busy marketplace on Jakku.

L to R: music composer John Williams; Lucasfilm president & producer Kathleen Kennedy; co-writer Lawrence Kasdan; and co-writer & director J.J. Abrams. This photo was taken at Bad Robot, Abrams’s production company, in Santa Monica, California.

(All photo credits: Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair)

For additional photos and to read an interview with J.J. Abrams, see Vanity Fair’s June 2015 issue, which will be released as a digital edition on Thursday, May 7th, and on newsstands nationwide on Tuesday, May 12th. To subscribe to Vanity Fair’s extras and updates, click HERE.

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